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Abbot at convent of Homcoltran (Holmcultram). King and council. The Abbot and convent...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/52/2583

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This record is about the Abbot at convent of Homcoltran (Holmcultram). King and council. The Abbot and convent... dating from [1307] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/52/2583
Date
[1307]
Description
Petitioners
Abbot at convent of Homcoltran (Holmcultram).
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
The Abbot and convent of Homcoltran ask for an allowance for a debt owed them for corn taken from them to Caernarfon for the king's use, in the twenty-fifth year of his reign; or that the same debt might be allowed to them in the tenth which they owe the king.
Nature of endorsement
John de Kyrkeby is to examine the tally, and to whose benefit the corn went, and who should be charged with it; and he is to inform the council. [A second endorsement is found on the dorse of SC 8/52/2584]
Places mentioned
Homcoltran (Holmcultram, Abbey Town), [Cumberland]
Karnarvan (Caernarfon), [Caernarfonshire, Wales].
People mentioned
John de Kyrkeby (Kirkby).
Note
CCR 1302-7 p.487 is dated at Lanercost, 26 February 1307.
Related material

An acknowledgement of the debt owed to the Abbot for this corn is SC 8/52/2584

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 4095
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw I, vol. V, 1302-1307, (Public Record Office, 1908), p.487 (order to the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer in accordance with the endorsement to SC 8/52/2584)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062798/

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